Re:Ask HN: Differences you've noticed between CS students an...
by robotkilla on Saturday March 07, 2015 @09:18PM
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self taught - went to community college for graphic design and dropped out. have been a professional developer for 12 years.
For me those skills aren't incredibly useful in everyday work (I mostly do web development), but I think having that low level understanding does help from time to time, in a hard to measure way. I feel like it sort of gives you a better intuition on certain things, like evaluating new technologies, why you're having performance issues, etc.
Also watching a teacher code, and listening to other people describe their thought process was interesting. I didn't do a lot of pair programming, but if you go to a university where you do that, it would be useful.